Picturelife is the latest project by Charles Forman, who sold his last startup, OMGPOP, to Zynga for $180 million last year. It is a service that protects your pictures by backing up and organizing all your photos and videos in the cloud.

Wilson Kriegel was a part of Zynga’s high-profile OMGPOP acquisition and equally high-profile executive departure spree, and he has popped back up on the tech executive landscape. This time, he’s joined forces with New York City-based Paltalk, a webcam and mobile video chat app, as the company’s new president and chief operating officer.

Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello took a not-so-subtle shot at Zynga today during EA’s conference call with analysts. He said that EA would not pay a large amount of money “just to buy a brand” or to buy an “instant one-hit wonder.”

Zynga has announced the implementation of new social elements for its hit Pictionary-esque app, Draw Something. Players can now share their masterpieces on Facebook and Twitter, as well as save drawings to the device photo library. This functionality is only available on iOS and to be added to Android at a later date.

Don’t say mobile games aren’t gritty. Funzio, the mobile gaming company behind popular iOS games Crime City and Modern War, is looking to raise a fat $50 million funding round at $350 million pre-money valuation, but anonymous sources familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.

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THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn’t necessarily the case.

CEO Dan Porter responds to critics who have called his remarks about his former employee petty. “It wasn’t about Shay. It was about the 41 other people that made it happen.” Porter also explains his “hoodie” tweet that seemed to capitalize on the Trayvon Martin tragedy.

Big Fish Games is beating Zynga to the punch with a copycat title dubbed Mime Something. The game is debuting on April Fool’s Day, even before Zynga could make a copycat of Draw Something, the ridiculously addictive Pictionary rip-off that Zynga acquired with the purchase of OMGPOP for $180 million.

In a pair of tweets, CEO Dan Porter of Draw Something developer OMGPOP called the one employee who turned down Zynga “selfish” and “the weakest one” on the team. Many fans of the sketching game for smartphones stated that they’re uninstalling Draw Something based on Porter’s behavior.

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Fresh from the $180 million acquisition of OMGPOP, Zynga has priced the secondary offering of its stock at $12 a share. The San Francisco maker of social and mobile games is using the secondary offering to give longtime investors a chance to cash out.

In the torrent of coverage about Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP last week, most of the focus was on the price, eventually revealed to be $180 million. Most outlets also reported that all OMGPOP’s developers were headed to Zynga, but it turns out there was one, very vocal holdout from the bunch.

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Zynga filed a revised S-1 this morning with the SEC that contained a number of interesting details. It pegged the price of its recent purchase of NYC game company OMGPOP at $180 million. The filing also revealed the company will sell just under 43 million shares in a secondary offering. And while CEO Mark Pincus is offloading about 15 percent of his shares, his voting power will stay very much intact.